Machine Learning Software Engineer (LLM & Agentic AI - TikTok - Content Ecology Local Services)
Core
Drive R&D of core algorithms for TikTok Local Services using LLMs, Agentic AI, and multimodal learning to optimize transaction conversion and user intent understanding.
Role type
Senior IC machine learning engineer (LLM & Agentic AI)
Builds
Production-grade AI solutions for TikTok Local Services, including knowledge graphs and intelligent transaction optimization.
Domain
E-commerce / Local Services / AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
LLMs, Transformer architectures, multimodal large language models, NLP, computer vision, AI agents, knowledge graphs, conversion modeling, causal uplift modeling, decision optimization, Python, PyTorch, distributed model training, large-scale data processing
Preferred skills
E-commerce or marketplace ML systems, multilingual/multimodal data deployment, publications at top AI conferences, technical leadership
Technologies
PyTorch, Python, LLMs, Agentic AI, Knowledge Graphs
Responsibilities
Develop deep semantic representations of content, products, and user intent; enhance supply- and demand-side experiences for transaction conversion; tackle frontier challenges in multilingual/multimodal understanding and sequential decision-making; translate SOTA research into scalable production solutions.